JUDICIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does judicial mean? 

• JUDICIAL (adjective)
  The adjective JUDICIAL has 4 senses:

1. decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice

2. belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge

3. relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge

4. expressing careful judgment

  Familiarity information: JUDICIAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUDICIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice

Context example:

a judicial decision

Similar:

legal (established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules)

Derivation:

judge (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

judicial robes

Pertainym:

judge (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Derivation:

judge (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

judicial; juridic; juridical

Context example:

judicial system

Pertainym:

justice (the quality of being just or fair)

Derivation:

judge (a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Expressing careful judgment

Synonyms:

discriminative; judicial

Context example:

a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose

Similar:

critical (characterized by careful evaluation and judgment)

Derivation:

judge (an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality)

 Context examples 

The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.

(Law, NCI Thesaurus)

Probably it was something in the nature of a judicial proceeding.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again the other cleared his throat and spoke with painstaking and judicial slowness.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I quite believe that Mr. Micawber saw himself, in his judicial mind's eye, on the woolsack.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Most of them, and especially those who deal in the astronomical part, have great faith in judicial astrology, although they are ashamed to own it publicly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Try the settee,” said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bannister entered, and shrank back in evident surprise and fear at our judicial appearance.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Skiff Miller again debated with himself, though this time aloud, at the same time running his gaze in a judicial way over the mooted animal.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I speak, said Mrs. Micawber, as a female, necessarily; but I have always been of opinion that Mr. Micawber possesses what I have heard my papa call, when I lived at home, the judicial mind; and I hope Mr. Micawber is now entering on a field where that mind will develop itself, and take a commanding station.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)